“Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?” KnowsMenDoeBookIdeasWholeSoundBrainKnowledgeKnowingEvery ManScholarKnowing Better Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.” DoeFormNamesIncreasePatienceDiminishUnwise Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.” TryingLittlesDoeI CanJoySportsEnjoyPleasurePoorCreaturesSummerSpringNotionFishesDuesInnocentCrueltyDumbAbstractTendernessAmusementReconcileTranquilTreacheryPractiseAnglingWantonAnglersDestructivenessVehementRevelry Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.” MenMindDoeSeemsRunningSecretRaceGeniusAmbitionStonesHorseNervousThrownCompetitorsBrutesEmulateEmulationRacersThoroughbreds Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.” PeopleWorldWellsHeartDoeBookLightMightLastsReadingLostKnownNovelStudyFashionSonSorrowRoseHeavyPhysiciansPlagueDraught Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.” ThinkingDoeTermAssIronyGentlemanBlankVulgarRudeness Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.” MenWorldGivingMindDoeValuesWealthSilenceCreditContrast Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.” MenDoeTalentMastersGeniusBaffled Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.” MenMindDoeArtSoulFoundStudyIntentionSelectionAccordNature And Art Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.” IfsDoeLawTurnsMissingCrimeGunPrisonStrikesGuiltyCrowPigeons Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
